The Sunday Crossword No 3162, Sunday 08 Aug 2021

ACROSS

1   Pig scabs for fashionable bar snack (3,2,6) BAG OF CRISPS*

9   Disney World's setting for V. Woolf novel (7) ORLANDO [DD}

10 '20s style red coat altered (3,4) ART DECO*

11 Very much game for movie set in N. Dakota (5) FARGO {FAR}{GO}

12 The writer pulled back, tensed up, given a cuddle (8) EMBRACED {ME<=}{BRACED}

14 In the altogether bald lie, he's preposterous (10) DESHABILLE*

15 Discussed obscure monster of literature (4) HYDE (~hide)

17 Language in Poetry: volume missing (4) ERSE vERSE

19 French dish: mash pear evenly, for thin crinkled sheets (5,5) CREPE PAPER {CREPE}{PAP}{pEaR}

21 Like Eric Clapton, narcoleptic? (8) ANAGRAMS Definition by example

23 Angel or shark? (5) NURSE [DD]

25 Children regularly rejected your pizza (old sausage) (7) CHORIZO {CH}{yOuR}{pIzZa}{O}

26 Around wife, Everyman shall repeatedly feud (3,4) ILL WILL {I'LL}{W}{I'LL}

27 With alcohol banned by trains, I'm mixing cocktails (3,8) DRY MARTINIS {DRY}{TRAINS+IM}*

DOWN

1   Beckoned eastwards, Lukashenko approved Russia's 'Union State' primarily, here? (7) BELARUS Acrostic Semi&lit

2   Norse god's surrounded – Odin's head – finally, finally wanting boats (8) GONDOLAS {GO{No..e}D}{Odin}{LASt}

3   Ravenously eat up course (4) FLOW<=

4   Pay attention: ready money's invested. Upset? Mostly upset (4,2,4) READ MY LIPS {READ{M}Y}{SPILl<=}

5   Musical instrument, one that squeals, is taken up (5) SITAR {RAT}{IS}<=

6   Not half easy navigating two-master that's slight (7) SKETCHY {eaS{KETCH}Y}

7   Fresh evasion, audacity: that's rich at the table! (3-5,5) HOT-FUDGE SAUCE {HOT}{FUDGE}{SAUCE}

8   They'd collared criminal without pity (4-9) COLD-HEARTEDLY*

13 What may get you arms half akimbo, sweaty and gasping at the end? (6,4) BIKRAM YOGA {ARms+AKIMBO+s...tY+g...nG}* &lit 

16 Without walls round US prison, spy finally escaping (4-4) OPEN-PLAN {O}{PEN}{PLANt}

18 Do  foes struggle to secure end of Nicola Sturgeon, perhaps? (7) SEAFOOD {DO+FOES}* over {n...lA}

20 Run for seconds of baked goods in celebrations (7) PARTIES PA(-s+r)RTIES

22 Heading off, intellectual given to falls? (5) RAINY bRAINY

24 A little unpicturesque person of old (4) PICT [T]

Reference List

Game = GO, Volume = V, Children = CH, Old = O, Wife = W, Norse = N, Money = M, Two-master = KETCH, Fresh = HOT, Run = R, Seconds = S